Poker Rang Video

You obviously need a poker room to play.. So, now you're playing at one of the poker rooms. You also have our range calculator available.

You may have an idea how of the range of your opponents. Here comes Holdem Manager into the picture. Holdem Manager is a poker tracker software: A time-limited version is available free.

This piece of software is a must to have - even for low stakes. Is TT in it? Simply use our range calculator to get an idea of his range.

Although - with one million simulations per hand - the calculator's results are reliable, always keep in mind that there are other factors to take into account: Assuming that he is capable of some basic hand reading, then your full thought process when betting for value in position on the river should go something like this: At this point, his range is still be too wide to enumerate, though you should already be discounting certain hands.

Your opponent calls, and you see a KTT rainbow flop. Although your opponent is very capable of bluff-raising, you have never seen him call with the sole intention of bluffing a later street, and you think he is particularly unlikely to do this out of position.

So his range most likely consists of Ax he knows you make a lot of continuation bets and correctly assumes that Ace-high is ahead of your betting range , Kx, QJ, Q9, T8-AT you expect him to fold worse Tx pre-flop , pocket pairs , and occasionally higher pocket pairs, though you believe he would usually re-raise these pre-flop.

The turn is another K, which is a great card for you: He checks, which tells you very little, and you are happy to check behind.

The river is a deuce, and your opponent checks again, enabling you to narrow his range even further. You are fairly sure that he would have bet any full house or quads and would have bluffed with a counterfeited pair.

Looks like a good situation to value bet, since you are almost never beat. The question now is how much to bet. To determine this, you need to consider which hands you are targeting.

In this case, you are looking to get value from QJ and Q9. What would cause your opponent call a river bet with Q high?

If he thinks you are bluffing. Thus, you have to make a bet that your opponent will interpret as a bluff. This is an important point, because many players make the mistake of betting an amount commensurate to the strength of their hand.

This is a very obvious, intuitive betting pattern, and your opponents can and do take exploit it. I am not saying that you should always make a big value bet here; that depends on your opponent.

If your opponent will call a half-pot bet with Q-high three times as often as he would call a pot-sized bet, then you should bet the smaller amount.

If he will call the smaller bet less than twice as often, then the bigger bet is better. You must first decide which hands you want to call you and then determine how to maximize your equity against those hands.

That does seem extremely tight. Also, wondering why we are not getting it All-In pre against a 16BB stack. There must be a better spot. He said that we know the villain is a nit that will only get it in with a set..

I had a hand the other day where I narrowed down a nits holding to quads on the river.. I called a river raise wrongly, as I knew the nit could only raise quads in that spot.

Now that is what I call explaining how to use ranges! Thank you so much for this goldmine! SPR is purely mathematical, poker is not.

It is an extreme example yes but a necessary one to show the true value of range thinking. Accepting to lose